• conceptual, of principle, principled
• to batter about, to curry, to haze, to hide, to lace, to lather, to lay it on sy, to lick, to mill, to pepper, to run through, to thrash, to trounce, to wallop, to welt
• to cast off, to disapprove, to project, to recant, to reject, to seed, to sling, slung, to throw away, to throw out, to throw overboard
• true to one's principles
• to abstract, to detract, to distract
• to cut off, to cut, cut, to pill, to plough, to section, to sever
• to by-pass, to divert, to lead away, to lead off
• to give sy a thrashing, to give sy a trouncing, to lay into sy
• to square one's practice with one's principles